"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.”
“I am excessively diverted.”

Source : Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books
“I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments”
“No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.”
“Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.”
“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
“Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.”
“It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.”

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